Future Students | UC Santa Barbara

Research at UC Santa Barbara | UC Santa Barbara

Students | UC Santa Barbara

Jobs at UC Santa Barbara | UC Santa Barbara

Applying to UC Santa Barbara | UC Santa Barbara

A-Z Index | UC Santa Barbara

History of UC Santa Barbara | UC Santa Barbara

Website Accessibility | UC Santa Barbara

Visit UCSB | UC Santa Barbara

Links must be appear visually distinct from regular text. A common mistake is to make links
only differ subtly in color. Users with visual impairments cannot see these links.   

There are two ways to comply with this requirement:

1. You can make links appear differently from regular text without relying on color alone.
   For example, you can add an underline to your links. This makes links easy to identify, even
   to people who cannot see color at all.
2. You can make links a color which is very different from the surrounding text (a 3:1 ratio), 
   AND ensure that when the link is selected with the keyboard or mouse that it appears   
   differently from regular text without relying on color alone.

Unless you have disabled the `outline` CSS style, links will automatically appear visually distinct
when selected with the keyboard.

link-contrast

February 2025

January 2025

University of California Santa Barbara

Title / URL	Issues
Future Students \| UC Santa Barbarawww.ucsb.edu/future-students	1
Research at UC Santa Barbara \| UC Santa Barbarawww.ucsb.edu/research	1
Students \| UC Santa Barbarawww.ucsb.edu/students	1
Jobs at UC Santa Barbara \| UC Santa Barbarawww.ucsb.edu/jobs	1
Applying to UC Santa Barbara \| UC Santa Barbarawww.ucsb.edu/applying	1
A-Z Index \| UC Santa Barbarawww.ucsb.edu/a-z/b	1
A-Z Index \| UC Santa Barbarawww.ucsb.edu/a-z/e	1
History of UC Santa Barbara \| UC Santa Barbarawww.ucsb.edu/about/history	1
Website Accessibility \| UC Santa Barbarawww.ucsb.edu/accessibility	1
Visit UCSB \| UC Santa Barbarawww.ucsb.edu/about/visit	1

Ensure links are distinguished by more than just color

University of California Santa Barbara

Where this issue has occurred